2016 IAAF World Junior Championships in Kazan
15.04.2014
In its second and last day of business in the Senegalese Capital of Dakar, the IAAF Council decided that the Russian city of Kazan will be the host of the 2016 edition of the IAAF World Junior Championships on Tuesday (15).
Kazan is well-known as Russia’s ‘Capital of Sport’ and hosted a very successful edition of the World University Games in 2013.
A number of top Russian athletes are from the city. Kazan will also host the 2014 World Fencing Championships, the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships as well as matches in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Kazan’s Central Stadium is a state of the art facility with 22,600 seats and an adjacent indoor stadium for warming up. The world’s best junior athletes will also be able to enjoy the experience of an athletes’ village, built for the World University Games last year.
In other business, Council heard a full status report from the organisers of the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing as well as presentations from the IAAF Area Associations outlining details of their own Strategic Plans which assess the challenges and opportunities ahead as they seek to develop and promote the sport of athletics at Area level.
No fewer than 11 IAAF Committee and Commission reports were studied as well, and Council will next meet just prior to the forthcoming IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene (22-27 July).
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